Hard gluon evolution in the last stage of the bottom-up thermalization

TL;DR

This paper investigates the late-stage evolution of gluons during bottom-up thermalization in heavy ion collisions, focusing on medium expansion effects and estimating transverse momentum diffusivity.

Contribution

It introduces a model incorporating medium expansion effects into gluon evolution and provides estimates for transverse momentum diffusivity during thermalization.

Findings

Medium expansion influences gluon thermalization dynamics.

Estimated transverse momentum diffusivity in an expanding medium.

Enhanced understanding of gluon evolution in heavy ion collisions.

Abstract

The study of how fast thermalization in heavy ion collisions occurs has been one of the central topics in the heavy ion community. In the weak coupling picture this thermalization occurs from "the bottom up": high energy partons, formed early in the collision, radiate low energy gluons which then proceed to equilibrate among themselves, forming a thermal bath that brings the high energy sector to equilibrium. In this scheme we apply a model on parton energy loss to discuss the effects of medium expansion on the thermalization problem and estimate the average transverse momentum diffusivity for thermalization in a Bjorken expanding medium.